Thrill sports are thrilling because there is a small but easily quantifiable chance of really getting hurt or killed. The people who don't realize this are stupid.

I always see these cases where they claimed God saved them and think, "You were on your way to heaven, seconds away from going to be happy with God for all eternity, and He rejected you. Clearly, He doesn't want you in heaven."

haemaker:Did the backup chute also fail, or are she and her dad idiots?

her primary failed to deploy fully, she went into a spin, panicked and even though the grounds people over radio and instructors told her what to do and how to recover from spin and cut away and go to reserve she didn't. emergency gravity kicked in and she landed as planned.

Not only that, but he kind of sucks at catching people, if they still suffer broken bones and internal injuries.

Plus, when you think of all the kids being shot, blown up, tortured, raped, etc, around the world at any given time, you have to wonder why he chooses to save some teen who was intentionally jumping out of an airplane.

Have a look at all you geniuses. Finding holes in the sister's God story. Good for you.

FTA:The guy with the radio on the ground is trying to talk her out of what's going on and telling her what to do and she can't do it," Joe Wethington told CNN. "She's going too fast and in different directions she can't reach up and grab it anyway and then when she goes into the spiral he keeps telling her to cut away to release the shoot and to pull the reserve."

I'm guessing that didn't happen or happened way too late? Hence the big THUD when she hit the ground. The farnarkling article doesn't elaborate, of course.

It absolutely reeks of a lack of training, and/or of someone not emotionally mature enough "under fire" to deal with a chute failure.

// where I'm from I think it's L-A-W law that n00bs have to do several tandem jumps strapped to an instructor before being allowed to go solo// or maybe the jump schools' insurance companies won't cover solo n00b jumps?

cowgirl toffee:KangTheMad: If it was her first jump, why the hell wasn't she tandem with the instructor?

She was already tied to god.

God's a bit of an ass.

"Yo, girl, I'm not gonna let your parachute open. Instead, I'm going to let you smash into the ground, sustaining serious injuries, but you will live. Oh, and you better thank me or I'll farking have the doctors give you the wrong dosage and kill you."

Dragonflew:That Guy Jeff: he was too afraid, so the instructor never jumped with Mackenzie and her father, Joe.

... the instructor was too afraid to jump? Where they hell were they buying the skydiving class?

You cut out the part that clears up the confusion.

another man was supposed to follow them, but he was too afraid, so the instructor never jumped with Mackenzie and her father

Sounds like the instructor stayed behind with the other man who was too afraid to jump.

Oooooh, there were TWO other people supposed to jump with them, but one freaked out so the other, the instructor, stayed behind as well. That makes so much more sense. Total of four people supposed to jump. Got it. If only there was some sort of oversight position in journalism with the job of making sure articles are clear and well written. As this person would make edits to articles, we could call them "changers" or "modifiers" or something like that.

Also, this was her first jump ever and she solo'ed? Isn't that illegal or something?

Yeah, I call sketchy. It was clearly not a static line progression, so maybe some kind of Oklahoma-style AFF lesson/progression? Precious few details in that article as to why the eff the instructor didn't jump with her if she was his student. Was her dad a student or an instructor? The instructor on the radio wasn't much help. It was a birthday jump, so I bet she should have had two instructors with her if it was AFF Jump #1. Or daddy paid special money for a special deluxe version of a jump.

This is why there are rules.

Also, the parachute worked insofar as it slowed her descent. If it hadn't worked, she'd be a corpse.

Can a religious person please explain, with yes/no answers, which of the following god is responsible for:

- bad packing of the chute (I am assuming the primary cause of failure)- partial deployment of the chute (even a badly packed chute may deploy properly (or close enough))- partial deployment in such a way that she spins and cannot follow the instructions to deploy the reserve- the degree of deployment of the primary such that her impact velocity breaks bones- the medical treatment provided by doctors leading to her recovery

Religious people just seem to know what parts god is responsible for ... if you would be kind enough to help out then maybe the rest of us could understand.

Farking Canuck:Can a religious person please explain, with yes/no answers, which of the following god is responsible for:

- bad packing of the chute (I am assuming the primary cause of failure) Yes- partial deployment of the chute (even a badly packed chute may deploy properly (or close enough)) Yes- partial deployment in such a way that she spins and cannot follow the instructions to deploy the reserve Yes- the degree of deployment of the primary such that her impact velocity breaks bones Yes- the medical treatment provided by doctors leading to her recovery No